DAMAGE!! - MAYONNAISE!!

Silas was playing around this morning and getting into trouble (as usual). I wasn't paying much attention to him until I heard him repeating in an ornery voice, "Damage! Damage! Damage!". I asked him what he was saying. He just looked at me and repeated, "Damage!". I then asked what damage meant. He said, "Damage is a NAUGHTY word." Can you guess which one he meant??? I said, "OHHHHHH that's right, damage is a naughty word and you should NEVER say it again." I can't image where he heard such things!?!

Also, the boys have been playing a lot of army type games outside since school has been out. Apparently they have plenty of opportunities to use the May Day distress call. The other day we were driving in the pick up when Silas started calling out his May Day distress - "Mayonnaise, mayonnaise we have a man down." Yet again he was very CLOSE to the real word.

Silas is tagged!

1. What is something mom always says to you? "Don't spray water on the windows"

2. What makes mom happy? "Stop doing it"

3. What makes mom sad? "My squirting water on the windows." (Funny how Silas' answers are all centered around the last thing he got in trouble for too).

4. How does mom make you laugh? "When you tickle me I giggle."

5. What was mom like as a child? "Toys, cars and dump trucks."

6. How old is your mom? "Too old." (NICE)

7. How tall is your mom? "This tall".(He put his hand on top of my head)

8. What is her favorite thing to do? "Sit on the computer all day." (Busted).

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? "Go to bed."

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? "For parades, with trailers and firetrucks."

11. What is your mom really good at? "At not scrabble."

12. What is your mom not very good at? "Not games."

13. What does your mom do for her job? "Do chores."

14. What is your mom's favorite food? "Salmon."(I liked it like two times in my life).

15. What makes you proud of your mom? "Being happy"

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? "Nia-hoa Kailan (sp?)

17. What do you and your mom do together? "Stay home while Dad's at work."

18. How are you and your mom the same? "We both like mac 'n cheese"

19. How are you and your mom different? "We're the same."

20. How do you know your mom loves you? "Buy horses".(NICE TRY).

Silas tags Kyle and Roger!

Count Down to Homelessness

Tami keeps reminding me that I need to write more often on our blog. We finished meetings early this morning for church so before we all go back, I have time to write a few things.

We will be out of our house on Saturday. We close on Friday but the people buying it have given us until Saturday to get out. We are pretty much out of our house now though with almost everything we own in storage. The boys said they wanted to go camping this summer, it looks like they are going to get their wish.

So far, we don't even have a contract on the house we are trying to buy so we are going to be officially homeless in about 6 days. I can't wait. The boys like living in hotels because they have pools, they bring you dinner in your room and they make the beds and clean the bathrooms for you. After looking at their logic, I have to agree. Plus, you get new neighbors every day.

I tried to convince Tami that we should buy an RV but she didn't like the ones I had picked out. I told her that brownish type shag carpet is back in style now but she just isn't as current on things like that as I am.

No one seems to understand why we are so willing to wait and wait for the poop house but that's okay. We were talking about it the other day and realized that we have never bought a house from a person. We always buy from banks and the houses are always empty and usually very trashed. This one is no exception.

Before I end this, I wanted to give our good friends the first opportunity to come get some free manure if we end up buying this house. We will load it for you. All you have to do is haul it away and put it in your flower beds or garden. We won't be doing this for just anyone so hurry before I start selling it on Craigslist!!

Spammer Student

Yesterday Isaac came home from school with a notice informing us that the school was on Tornado lock down and handwritten at the bottom was Isaac's teacher, Ms. Frank's, personal email address. Isaac told me that she gave him the address because he wanted to send her all the cool emails he gets from his uncle Gabe. Gabe is definitely the cool uncle and apparently has a friend who works at the Houston Zoo who sends him fun animal pix from the zoo. So last night I decided I'd better check Isaac's email to see if/what he'd sent her. Much to my chagrin I found 11, yes ELEVEN emails to Ms. Frank. Ten of which were forwards and one where he asked her age. To be fair, we all would like to know her age as Caleb and I have joked about hooking her up with Gabe. So, to add to her long list of emails I had to so send an apology email as well.

Me: "Oh my goodness I am so sorry! I just checked Isaac's email account and saw that he emailed you 11 times. Talk about a serious spammer! He has an uncle in Houston who is the "fun" uncle because he's single with no kids and loves to play on Isaac's level. He sends him zoo pictures and other funny things that apparently he really wanted to share with you. Sorry again, in the future I'll try to monitor before he sends NOT after. Thanks,Tami"

Her Response: "Hi Tami-No problem---I had not written him back because I wanted to double check with you to make sure you knew he had asked for my email account before I responded. He waited so patiently for it after school--he obviously had a mission in mind.The district system is not accessible right now so I had planned on waiting until morning when I would have access to your address.He has talked about his uncle numerous times and all the pictures he sends him with the various animals, etc. They were entertaining, especially after the crazy weather day today. It was a side of Isaac I had not seen before with all the emails. He made me laugh especially when he asked my age. If you are okay with it---when/if he writes I will just bcc you any correspondence/replies.Again, no worries, it was completely innocent. I am still cracking up. At least he was still excited to share something with his teacher on the eve of his last day--Jennifer"

So funny! Isaac is really a sweet, tenderhearted boy!

Boot Scoot Bootie

Jude is now 8.5 months old. He doesn't crawl but does sit quite well. I just sat him down on the floor with some toys and came to play on the computer. He's still sitting up but he's about 4 feet from where he started. I didn't see it happen but I'm assuming it was a boot scoot bootie maneuver! BTW, at this same age (8.5 months) Elias and Silas were walking. Isaac was walking at 10 months.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Silas: Hey Mom, do you want to play rock, paper, scissors? You be the paper and I'll be the scissors.

Me: Sure I'll play but I want to be the rock so I can break your scissors.

Silas: No, you have to be the paper so I can cut you.

* I guess he's just in the learning stages of the game. BTW, I learned the game as "Paper, Scissors, Rock". It flows out of your mouth so much better that way!

Oop-pay Farm

Tonight as we were taking another load of our things to our storage unit we began having a discussion about what we'd call our Farm/Ranch whatever you call it. We were saying it'd be fun to put a sign above the driveway entrance with our "name" on it. We brainstormed and came up with these ideas: Zimmie Ranch, Zimmer Farm, Mountain Vista (a play on Caleb's parents Ranch name - Valley Vista) and Zimmie P Farm (P is for poop). Then Elias came up with the winner.... "Oop-pay Farm" Oop-pay is Pig Latin for Poop. I had to say we all loved it. I'm sure we'll never feel like we need to actually spend money having a sign like that made but it was fun to think about. BTW, we don't know for sure if the Poop house will be ours or not. We'll hopefully find out sometime next week if our offer has been accepted.